New York femcee Ice Spice has become a phenomenon in the past years. The artist has been breaking sales records with hit songs like “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2,” “Princess Diana,” and “Munch.”
She has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj.
At the moment, Ice Spice can boast about having more listeners than the iconic British pop-rock band The Beatles on Spotify.
Drake, Kim Kardashian, and her daughter, North West, are among her biggest fans, and she has captured Anna Wintour‘s attention with her unique and liberated style.
Ice Spice graced her first cover of Teen Vogue this week wearing a stunning creation. The sensation is featured in a stylish yet daring photoshoot inside the magazine.
She took part in a lengthy interview where she opened up on many personal topics. The 23-year-old rapper spoke about colorism, the pain, and hate she received after many of her childhood photos leaked online.
Ice Spice also opened up about how she managed to turn the haters into fans in her head, at least.
Ice Spice on her leaked photos
During the conversation, Ice Spice responded to the chaos that was created on social media earlier this year when multiple photos of her as a child and teenager were leaked.
Many of the comments focused on Ice Spice’s hair color now and then. The pictures seemed to indicate that Ice Spice, whose real name is Isis Naija Gaston, does not have natural ginger hair color.
Talking about the photo leak, she explained: “It’s weird because I was a minor in everything. In everything that is going viral, I was literally a kid,” she points out. “Imagine seeing pictures of you as a kid, pictures that you forgot existed — you’re basically seeing it for the first time yourself, too, and you’re a kid.”
She also explained that her social security number was stolen and leaked online, which means that it is now “locked,” and it is complicated for her to access it.
She shared: “My social security number got leaked. It’s locked now. It sucks for everybody because when I want to use it now, I gotta go and ask mad different people.”
Ice Spice on being pitted against dark-skinned women
She tackled head-on the criticism that she made it as a rapper because she is light-skinned. Ice Spice has a Black father born in America and a mother from the Dominican Republic.
She told the naysayers: “I have seen those opinions. I feel like that’s not something personal to me. I feel like that’s been the conversation for generations and forever, since the beginning of time.”
She added: “I try not to feed into negativity because I also see that when people are trying to make that point, it’s not out of a good place. [They end up putting] somebody else down.”
She does feed into the negative energy around her skin color, but she is taking action.
Ice Spice is aware that the internet often pits her against another talented young femcee — Flo Milli, who is dark-skinned.
To silence the haters, she recently showed women are all about their money by having Flo Milli as part of a major concert.
Ice Spice on making her haters useful to her career
Ice Spice has a unique image of her haters – she considers them as fans who are doing foolish or mean things to help her become bigger and wealthier.
She claimed: “A lot of the time I know what they’re going to say because the public is mad predictable…. I expect them to just be on my dck, to be picking at dumb sht. Like, they didn’t need to bring that up.”
During the interview, Ice Spice confessed that she has her head sitting well on her shoulders and that she is “moving smart” to be three steps ahead in the game.
